IM 870: Meet Me In Alaska - Are AI Content Filters Changing What We Read?

Intelligent Machines (Audio)

Leo Laporte

Ai, Twit, Artificial Intelligence, Technology

4.2 • 895 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2026

⏱️ 164 minutes

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Summary

British tech journalist Chris Stokel-Walker reveals his hands-on approach to filtering the world's information overload with AI, from building custom news-gathering bots to teaching reporters where the human touch still matters. Find out how next-gen tools are reshaping the front lines of reporting, and what gets lost—and found—when machines do the first pass.

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NHTSA says the 2026 Tesla Model Y is the first car model to pass the agency's new ADAS tests; Tesla conducted the tests and submitted the results to the NHTSA
Trump's China trip collides with AI security fears
Jensen Huang to college grads: "Run. Don't walk" toward AI
Tech rivalry, distrust sap summit hopes for Trump-Xi AI push
VIDEO: Watch a team of humanoid robots running a full 8-hr shift at human performance levels.
Anthropic's Claude Managed Agents can now "dream," sort of
Anthropic says Claude's blackmail behavior came from fictional evil AI stories online
Anthropic's C.E.O. Says It Could Grow by 80 Times This Year
Anthropic Expands Push Into Legal Industry With New AI Tools
The new Wild West of AI kids' toys
Internet Archive Switzerland
Perceptron Mk1 shocks with highly performant video analysis AI model 80-90% cheaper than Anthropic, OpenAI & Google
Mira Murati's AI dream team got their stock options. Now many are out.
The New York Times Published an A.I.-Fabricated Quote Attributed to Pierre Poilievre
AI will soon be capable of telling convincing lies
Thinking Machines shows off preview of near-realtime AI voice and video conversation with new 'interaction models'
Hallucinopedia
Celebrating Thirty Years of the Internet Archive with the 'Class of 1996'
Sand shortage

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Chris Stokel-Walker

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0:00.0	It's time for intelligent machines.
0:01.8	This week we interview Chris Stokel Walker.
0:03.7	He's a British tech journalist for the BBC, the economist,
0:07.5	Nature and Scientific American,
0:08.9	and he wrote a book called How AI A8 the World.
0:12.5	We'll talk to Chris about how he uses AI for news gathering.
0:16.7	Intelligent Machines is next.
0:21.3	Podcasts you love.
0:23.0	From people you trust.
0:25.5	This is Twit.
0:29.5	This is Intelligent Machines with Paris, Martinoe, and Jeff Jarvis.
0:33.7	Episode 870, recorded Wednesday, May 13th, 2026.
0:39.0	Meet me in Alaska.
0:41.2	It's time for intelligent machines to show we cover AI, robotics, and all the smart little doodads
0:47.0	all around you, in your house, everywhere, in your car, in your baby carriage.
0:53.5	Paris Martino is here from Consumer Reports. Cars and baby car and your baby carriage. Paris Martinot is here from Consumer Reports.
0:56.0	She's...
0:57.0	Cars and baby carriages. Those are things that I have.
1:00.0	You do not have either one, do you?
1:03.0	Nope.
1:04.0	Yeah, that's pretty amazing, actually.
1:07.0	That's good. It's good.
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